external enclosure (or facsimile thereof) and connect it via SATA or USB whichever it supports.
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Hello all,
I have this perplexing issue.
Working on a friends PC which is a IBM ThinkCenter. He originally had WinXP installed on the SATA drive which the OS is corrupt, but still needs to access files on it, so I installed a IDE drive and changed the boot sequence in the BIOS to have the IDE drive load first, but it seems that when I start the PC up, it always want to load the SATA one, now if I disconnect it, it loads the IDE drive with no problem, but I need to have it where is can been seen as a 2nd drive just to get to the files.
I really don't want to buy an external case and insert the SATA drive to get to it...is there any way around this or am I doing something wrong?
I even added the SATA drive to the "Exclude from boot" in the BIOS and it still tries to boot from it, but if I disconnect it, loads XP from the IDE drive w/o issue?!?!?
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